"A Song for my Father"
A book by Ella Milch-Sheriff and Ingeborg Prior was published in March 2008 in Germany.

Coming Performances:

30 April 2008
"There in the other World"
For Children's Choir and Piano
Text: Nava Semel
Premiere: "Liron Choir", Ronit Shapira, conductor
Masua, Kibbutz Tel-Yitzhak
Live broadcast in the Israeli TV, Channel 2

May 2008
Poland and Germany, World premiere
Ballade on the Three Prophets
Text: Nava Semel

1 May 2008
"And the Rat Laughed", Opera
The Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv

7 May 2008
The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein: Conductor
Fanfare for Orchestra
World premiere: The festive concert to celebrate Israel's 60th anniversary.

5 June 2008
"Little Woman"
Felicia Blumenthal House, Tel-Aviv, 20:30
Rona Israel-Kolat, Sopran
Hillel Tzori, Violoncello
Michal Tal, Piano

6 June 2008
"And the Rat Laughed", Opera
Siviu Festival, Romania

6 June 2008
"Black is the Night", a gypsy song for Soprano, mandoline, Piano and Contrabass.
Text: Nissim Aloni
World premiere: Abu-Gosh festival, 19:00. Keren Hadar, Soprano, Milka Lax, Piano.

8 June 2008
"And the Rat Laughed", Opera
National theatre, Bucharest, Romania, 11:00

23 June 2008
"Little Woman"
Rona Israel-Kolat, Sopran, Shmuel magen, Cello, Irit Rob, piano.
"Etnachta", Henri Crown theatre, Jerusalem, 17:00 Live broadcast, Kol hamusika

28-29 June 2008
"Dark Am I"
First European tour
28.6.08 Eglise du sacre-coeur, Libramont, Luxemburg Province, Belgium at 20:30
29.6.08 Gothic Hall – Municipality of Brussels, Grand Place at 20:00

6 August 2008
The Chautauqua festival, Amphitheatre, 20:15
"Credo", Trio for Violin, Violoncello & Piano
The Fine Arts Trio
World premiere.

A new recording of "Duo for Violin and Viola" has been added to the site.

A new recording of "Touches" has been added to the site.

A Fox Channel 8 story about "Songs from the Edge" has been added to the site.
The full story can also be read on the Fox Channel 8 website.

Prof. Hanoch Ron, music critic of Israel’s biggest newspaper, chose Ella Milch-Sheriff as the ”Success - Israeli Born Composer” and gives a lecture about her works at the opening event of the Open University at the Tel-Aviv Museum, 19.10, at 09:30. For more details download the invitation (PDF, Hebrew) or visit the Open University site (Hebrew).

"Dark am I..." - a musical fantasy based on "The Song of Solomon", has been added to the site.

World Premiere: The Israel Fetival, Jeruslaem, Monday June 4th, 2007, Henri Crown Hall, The Jerusalem Theatre.

New! The CD of "Dark am I..." has been released and is now available for purchase at the concert venues.

"Can Heaven Be Void?"
Vancouver, Washington State, USA
Vancouver Symphony, Salvador Brotons, conductor, Janine Hawley, mezzo-Soprano. 12,13.5.07.

"Songs from the Edge"
The Audubon Quartet, Janine Hawley, Mezzo-Soprano.

Friday, May 18, 2007, 8 p.m.
Lyric Theater, Blacksburg, VA, USA

Reston Community Center, USA
Saturday, October 28, Saturday, May 19, 3:00 p.m

"Oh Lord, God of Hosts, hear my Prayer"
The Chancel Choir

Centenary United Methodist Church, Winston-Salem, NC, USA, 6.5.2007.

"Little Woman" for soprano, Cello and Piano
"My father's diary" (based on "Can Heaven Be Void?") for mezzo-Soprano, cello and piano
Salem College, 7.5.2007

Lecture at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
"Composing the Holocaust?"
Ella Sheriff talks about her opera "And the Rat Laughed" based on Nava Semel's book and on her cantata "Can Heaven Be Void?" based on her father's diary.
17.5.2007, 12:30, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.